| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The relationship between termites and microbial community intheir gut is a well-known example of symbiosis, which aids efficient digestion ofrecalcitrant lignocellulose. Because the symbiotic protists are extremely difficult tocultivate, our knowledge about their physiology and functions are poor. In this study,single cell approach was applied for the symbiotic protist to investigate the process forlignocellulose degradation. These results suggests that the GHF gene was selectivelyexpressed from many homologous genes in the genome, it probably attributed to theefficient degradation of lignocellulose by the gut protists.
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